LOVE AND LEAP YEAR.
SHOULD WOMFA' ALWAYS WOO AND PROPOSE?
Front time immemorial it has been decreed, that men must woo and women wait to be wooed, and that even to take advantage ot a leap year was both indelicate and uninaidenly on the part of a girl. -Mere man has sturdily upheld his right to be the chooser in the matter of a life partner, and has set his face sternly against the woman who would usurp that privilege. A champion of the weaker sex, however, has arisen, who declares that the whole civilised race would be improved if woman was allowed the same prerogative as man in regard to wooing and marriage. This champion, Dr. Denslow Lewis, is not only an author and sociologist, but also president of the MedicoLegal Society of America, and chairman of the Hygienic Section of the Medical Association. Consequently, whatever one may think of his views, they are, coming from such an authority, entitled to the. greatest respect and consideration.
" There is no doubt that the selection of the husband should really rest with the woman," says Or. Lewis. "In the' animal world it is invariably the female that chooses her mate. Only in tb.» human race is the right of selection arbitrarily given to the male. Left to herself, and with no hampering conventions to interfere, the woman would be the most discriminating chooser. With all sorts of men to select from, she would be in no hurry to mate with the first little man that popped the question. Women love physical perfection. " With her right to select unquestioned, a woman would pick out the man of her own physical ideal, woo him I with all the varied arts and fascinations
it her disposal, and nine times out of ten get him. Physically, the race ivoubi be greatly beneiited. There arc many thousands of women in this
country who have married men just because they have been asked, and who now live, the lives of housekeeping drudges, bound to the so-called home only by the stern dictates of duly." ' I
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 66, 7 March 1908, Page 3
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348LOVE AND LEAP YEAR. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 66, 7 March 1908, Page 3
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